witeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 wīten (“to accuse, reproach, punish, suspect”), 古期英語 wītan (“to look, behold, see, guard, keep, impute or ascribe to, accuse, reproach, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną. Connected to 古期英語 wīte, see below.

別の表記

• wyte

動詞

wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited) (transitive, archaic or obsolete)

1. (chiefly Scotland) To regard (someone) as guilty, to accuse, to blame, to fault.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52, page 459:

     [H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope.

2. To censure (someone); to mulct, to reproach.
   • 1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso:

     [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.

3. To guard (something); to keep, to observe, preserve, protect.

語源 2

From 中期英語 wite (“guilt, blameworthiness, blame, wrongdoing, misdeed, offense, punishment, retribution, fine, bote, customary rent”), from 古期英語 wīte (“punishment, pain, torment”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”).

名詞

wite (plural wites)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) Blame, responsibility, guilt.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 209, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:

     Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.

2. Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.

語源 3

From 中期英語 witen, from 古期英語 wītan (“to see, accuse, go, depart”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, find, behold”).

動詞

wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)

1. (obsolete or poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish

参照

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

発音

• IPA: /ˈwiː.te/

名詞

wīte n (nominative plural wītu)

1. punishment
2. penalty, fine
3. torment
4. plague
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Þæt fīfte wīte wæs cwealm on heora orfe, swā þæt on ðām lande fornēan nān orf ne belāf, buton Israheles bē ānsund ġestōd.

     The fifth plague was a pestilence among their livestock, such that in the land almost no livestock were left, except for those of Israel, who remained healthy.

語形変化

Strong ja-stem:

派生語

派生した語

• → Medieval Latin: wīta

語源 2

発音

• IPA: /ˈwi.te/

動詞

wite

1. inflection of witan:
   1. singular present subjunctive
   2. singular imperative

語源 1

From 古期英語 wīte, from Proto-West Germanic *wītī, from Proto-Germanic *wītiją.

別の表記

• wyte

名詞

wite (plural wites)

1. punishment, retribution

派生した語

• English: wite
• ⇒ Yola: lotherwite

参照

• “wīte, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

形容詞

wite

1. alternative form of whit